Vikram Singh, Director of Computer Services, Fox School of Business and Management

Award criteria

Student Leadership

Awarded annually to a student who has made a significant contribution to the students and extended community of the MIS department

Eligibility: All full time undergraduate MIS students, all full and part-time MIS graduate students.

Who can nominate: Any Temple affiliated person including students, faculty, and administration, as well as alumni.

Faculty Leadership

Given annually to a faculty member who has made a significant contribution to the students and extended community of the MIS department.

Eligibility: Full and part-time faculty who have been employed at Temple for at least two semesters including the current term.

Who can nominate: Any Temple affiliated person including students, faculty, and administration, as well as alumni.

Administrative Leadership

This award is given annually to an administrator who has made a significant contribution to the students and extended community of the MIS department.

Eligibility: Full time administrators of the Fox School of Business and Management who have been employed at Temple for at least two semesters including the current term. Administrators of the MIS department are not eligible for this award. (Updated 3/2017)

Who can nominate: Any Temple affiliated person including students, faculty, and administration, as well as alumni.

Award selection process

A committee that is chaired MIS awards coordinator selects the above three award recipients. The committee is chaired by the MIS awards coordinator and includes at least one faculty, administrative, current student, and alumni representative and the department chair. Normally, the committee is comprised of previous recipients of the award.

Professional and Academic Achievement Award

Professional achievement is professional development, career knowledge, leadership, networking, and readiness for the workplace. Professional achievement is different from academic achievement which is measured by excellence in the classroom and grades. Both are important. This award is designed to recognize MIS students who are excelling in both academics and professional achievement on a per term basis.

Eligibility: All full time undergraduate MIS students with a cumulative GPA of 3.50 or higher.

Criteria: Each eligible student will receive a score based upon their GPA and Professional Achievement Points. The freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior with the highest score in a given term will receive the award. In the event of a tie, the MIS Awards Coordinator will call for an ad-hoc committee to determine the winner(s).

The scores for eligible students are calculated twice a year. The first calculation is for the spring/summer term award and the second calculation is for the fall term award.

The score is calculated per term by taking the sum of the GPA Percentage and Points Percentage for students during that particular term.

600 is the theoretical maximum number of Professional Achievement Points earnable in one term.

Point and in-term GPA values are expressed as percentages to give each an equal weight in the calculation.

Students are categorized as Freshmen/Sophomore/Junior/Senior as follows:

Freshman: 0 to 29 Credits

Sophomore: 30 to 59 Credits

Junior: 60 to 89 Credits

Senior: 90 to 119+ Credits

MIS Researcher of the Year

Recognizes outstanding MIS-focused scholarly research publications appearing in print in the prior year. The primary award criteria is a scoring system for publication of high quality MIS-centric peer-reviewed journal articles. (Criteria updated 2/2010)

Eligibility: Full-time faculty of Temple University

Guidelines

Published articles qualify only if Temple University is identified as the author’s affiliated organization.

Published articles qualify only if they have an MIS focus. If the MIS focus of an article is not obvious then the awards coordinator will rely on the author for clarification.

Only publications with a publication date of the previous calendar year are considered for point scoring (e.g., for the 2010 award, publications in 2009 are considered); the publication date is determined by when the article is in print (e.g., the year used in scholarly citations).

Articles qualify for Tier I as long as they meet all other criteria and the journal is a Fox A-list publication.

If one or more faculty published a qualifying Tier I journal article, only those faculty are eligible for the award. If only one faculty member published a qualifying Tier I journal article, they are the award winner, regardless of the point totals of other faculty members. When two or more faculty have qualifying Tier I journal articles, award determination will proceed based on point totals among only those faculty.

Scoring

Qualifying articles published in MISQ or ISR receive 6 points.

Qualifying articles published in all other Tier I publications receive 5 points.

Qualifying articles published in a non-Tier I publication appearing on the Fox target journal list receive 3 points.

Qualifying articles published in any other refereed journal receive 1 point.

Tie-Breaker

If there is tie in point values from qualifying journal articles, the awards coordinator will form an ad-hoc committee to identify the winner. This committee is instructed to consider the following additional factors in selecting the award winner: other scholarly output (e.g., books, conference proceedings, presentations), scholarly impact of eligible work, best paper awards, scholarly grant applications and awards, and any other activity that promotes the research profile of the Fox MIS Department.

Faculty Teaching Award (full-time)

Recognizes outstanding teaching in the prior year (e.g., the award given at the 2010 ceremony is for courses taught during the 2009 calendar year). (Criteria updated 5/2017)

Eligibility: Full-time faculty of the Management Information Systems department who taught 2 or more courses in the previous calendar year (summer courses included) and met the departmental teaching rigor requirement.

Criteria: The eligible full-time faculty member with the highest average teaching evaluation score for the previous calendar year (including spring, summer, and fall semesters) is identified. The teaching evaluation score is calculated as the average of Q13 (”The instructor taught this course well.”) and Q16 (”I learned a great deal in this course.”) for all courses taught by the instructor in the previous calendar year. If there are multiple faculty members whose average score are within 0.1 of the highest score, then the winner of the award is decided by an ad-hoc committee. This committee consists of the Department Chair, MIS Awards Coordinator, and other faculty as appropriate. The ad-hoc committee is instructed to consider:

The types of courses and course load of each faculty member (e.g., class size, difficulty and level of classes).

The score of Q13 (”The instructor taught this course well.”) by itself.

Faculty Teaching Award (part-time)

Recognizes outstanding teaching in the prior year (e.g., the award given at the 2010 ceremony is for courses taught during the 2009 calendar year). (Criteria updated 5/2017)

Eligibility: Part-time faculty of the Management Information Systems department who taught 2 or more courses in the previous calendar year (summer courses included) and met the departmental teaching rigor requirement.

Criteria: Same criteria as the full-time Faculty Teaching Award mentioned above. If there are multiple part-time faculty members whose (Q13 and Q16) average score are within 0.1 of the highest score, then the winner of the award is decided by the ad-hoc committee.